see 'from the mountain/backward'[three sections written 1991/92]'contents'
an attempt to show the gradual development into one-line haiku
from late 1960s through 1990
only one-line came to be written by the early 1980s
so in a sense the piece is more about the various content which has run through
a simple horizontal line
a further entanglement is the almost total
absorption of one-line
into sequences and into 'one-line linked haiku' with other writers
often i would type groups of one-line in the mid-80s perhaps to find sequences
within
or to look for something to send to a magazine or two
several of these groupings have been included here
including repetitions--as is--along with the title a group was temporarily
given
mm 12/27/01